Jethro Tull Best Album Poll - 1 of 2

[Music Head]

This Was (1968)



Track Listing

1."My Sunday Feeling" (Anderson) – 3:43
2."Some Day the Sun Won't Shine for You" (Anderson) – 2:49
3."Beggar's Farm" (Abrahams/Anderson) – 4:19
4."Move on Alone" (Abrahams) – 1:58
5."Serenade to a Cuckoo" (Kirk) – 6:07
6."Dharma for One" (Anderson/Bunker) – 4:15
7."It's Breaking Me Up" (Anderson) – 5:04
8."Cat's Squirrel" (Traditional, arranged by Abrahams) – 5:42
9."A Song for Jeffrey" (Anderson) – 3:22
10."Round" (Anderson/Abrahams/Bunker/Cornick/Ellis) – 1:03


Stand Up (1969)



Track Listing

1."A New Day Yesterday" – 4:10
2."Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square" – 2:12
3."Bourée" (J. S. Bach arr. Jethro Tull) – 3:46
4."Back to the Family" – 3:48
5."Look into the Sun" – 4:20
6."Nothing Is Easy" – 4:25
7."Fat Man" – 2:52
8."We Used to Know" – 3:59
9."Reasons for Waiting" – 4:05
10."For a Thousand Mothers" – 4:13


Benefit (1970)



Track Listing

1."With You There To Help Me" – 6:15
2."Nothing To Say" – 5:10
3."Alive and Well and Living In" – 2:43
4."Son" – 2:48
5."For Michael Collins, Jeffrey And Me" – 3:47
6."To Cry You A Song" – 6:09
7."A Time For Everything?" – 2:42
8."Inside" – 3:38
9."Play In Time" – 3:44
10."Sossity; You're A Woman" – 4:31

Aqualung (1971)



Track Listing

1."Aqualung" – 6:31 (Ian Anderson, Jennie Anderson)
2."Cross-Eyed Mary" – 4:06
3."Cheap Day Return" – 1:21
4."Mother Goose" – 3:51
5."Wond'ring Aloud" – 1:53
6."Up to Me" – 3:15
7."My God" – 7:08
8."Hymn 43" – 3:14
9."Slipstream" – 1:13
10."Locomotive Breath" – 4:23
11."Wind Up" – 6:01

Thick As A Brick (1972)



Track Listing

1. "Thick as a Brick, Part I" 22:40
2. "Thick as a Brick, Part II" 21:10




A Passion Play (1973)



Track Listing

1."Lifebeats" (1:14)
2."Prelude" (2:14)
3."The Silver Cord" (4:29)
4."Re-Assuring Tune" (1:11)
5."Memory Bank" (4:20)
6."Best Friends" (1:58)
7."Critique Oblique" (4:38)
8."Forest Dance #1" (1:35)
9."Forest Dance #2" (4:18)
10."The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles" (Anderson / Hammond / Evan) (4:18)
11."The Foot of Our Stairs" (4:18)
12."Overseer Overture" (4:00)
13."Flight from Lucifer" (3:58)
14."10.08 to Paddington" (1:04)
15."Magus Perde" (3:55)
16."Epilogue" (0:43)

War Child (1974)



Track Listing

1."War Child" – 4:35
2."Queen And Country" – 3:00
3."Ladies" – 3:17
4."Back-Door Angels" – 5:30
5."Sealion" – 3:37
6."Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day" – 4:09
7."Bungle in the Jungle" – 3:35
8."Only Solitaire" – 1:28
9."The Third Hoorah" – 4:49
10."Two Fingers" – 5:11


Minstrel In The Gallery (1975)



Track Listing

1."Minstrel in the Gallery" – 8:13
2."Cold Wind to Valhalla" – 4:19
3."Black Satin Dancer" – 6:52
4."Requiem" – 3:45
5."One White Duck / 010 = Nothing At All" – 4:37
6."Baker St. Muse" – 16:39
.....1."Baker St. Muse"
.....2."The Pig-Me and the Whore"
.....3."Nice Little Tune"
.....4."Crash-Barrier Waltzer"
.....5."Mother England Reverie"
3."Grace" – 0:37

Too Old To Rock 'n Roll, Too Young To Die (1976)



Track Listing

1."Quizz Kid" – 5:09
2."Crazed Institution" – 4:48
3."Salamander" – 2:51
4."Taxi Grab" – 3:54
5."From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser" – 4:09
6."Bad-Eyed 'N' Loveless" – 2:12
7."Big Dipper" – 3:35
8."Too Old to Rock And Roll, Too Young to Die" – 5:44
9."Pied Piper" – 4:32
10."The Chequered Flag (Dead Or Alive)" – 5:32

Songs From The Wood (1977)



Track Listing

1."Songs From The Wood" – 4:52
2."Jack-In-The-Green" – 2:27
3."Cup Of Wonder" – 4:30
4."Hunting Girl" – 5:11
5."Ring Out, Solstice Bells" – 3:43
6."Velvet Green" – 6:03
7."The Whistler" – 3:30
8."Pibroch (Cap In Hand)" – 8:27
9."Fire At Midnight" – 2:26

[Music Head]

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[Music Head]

It's Only Solitaire while serving the Queen And Country and being off to Bungle In The Jungle and do my duty as a War Child, leaving my Ladies back home to argue with the Sealion and hope for The Third Hurrah which would indicate that the remaining Back Door Angels had only Two Fingers to cross while they were Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day.

[shadowmac]

Songs from the Wood

Simply and outstanding album. They nailed many of the tracks from this album on the live album "Bursting Out!".

My second choice was "Broadsword" which Ian Anderson flat-out hates, but I like it quite a bit. "Squirrels" is just crazy-cool!

Mac

[techman]

No clear winner as of yet

[Music Head]

:bump2:.....

[FrankieLee]

Thick As A Brick gets my vote. Although released as an Ian Anderson album Thick As A Brick II is pretty good as well.

[michaeljamess]

Thick As A Brick gets my vote. Although released as an Ian Anderson album [I]Thick As A Brick II is pretty good as well.
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[bob_32_116]

Songs from the Wood.

I think Thick As a Brick, while it has some brilliant bits, is overblown and over-rated. Of that period, I prefer both Benefit and Minstrel In the Gallery.

From their later period, I really like the Broadsword and the Beast. I'm not familiar enough with all their albums to say whether that's their best "later" album.